Catholic, Muslim, Jewish or Jedi - the choice is yours. It seems that there were enough people in the UK willing (and stupid) enough to put Jedi as their religion on census forms to ensure that Jedi Knight received its own code for processing.

This unusual result is thanks to an internet campaign which started in New Zealand and spread to the UK, which maintained that if enough people put Jedi on their census replies, it would become a "fully recognised and legal religion".

Actually, the Office of National Statistics has just assigned it a code to aid in tallying the number of people who claim to be practising Jedi Knights. A spokeswoman told BBC online: "We are not defining what a religion or a faith might be. We are recognising what some may have entered on their census form and ensuring that our coding framework will cater for it." Which isn't quite as exciting, now, is it?